I’ve opened the discussion of Nicki Minaj being a feminist icon to understand what feminist actually means as well as female sexual empowerment. I’ve read quite a few articles about female sexual empowerment, one was a female doctor explain g the differences between powers that men and women have, men having physical power, we see them through sports, physical competition, and women have a sexual power that we see through fashion, modeling, and even pornography. The doctor was stating that women need to embrace this idea of sexual power over men. Women are in charge of who they want to have sex with, when, where, and why, and the fact that they are expressing and embracing this power doesn’t consider them a ‘slut’ because they have sex with multiple men, however she does say that it is extremely important to be conscious of who you are having sex with for health concerns. Another explanation of why women are having troubles expressing their sexuality because they fear for their safety, as they do hold this sexuality power, men hold this physical power, and if they want they’ll stop at nothing to get it, including women. However, it’s hard for women to physically fight off a man, but by having celebrities, political figures and fashion moguls adopting female sexuality and feminism will help make the sexual power women possess more common.
Another article talked about the author attending this sex workshop where she had to add a question pertaining to certain aspects of sex, like positions and ethics. One question was regarding how many men can a women sleep with until she’s considered a slut or hoe… The workshop leader answered with ‘until she considered she herself as such’. This article then went on to describe 4 main topics that are love and sex are not mutually exclusive, a number does NOT define you, explore and own your turn-ons, and your sexual pleasure is what you want it to be. These four topics are the ideals that women should understand to help make their sex life more lusturous and amazing. There’s absolutely no shame in expressing their sexual needs because when you have sex there are chemically induced hormones that make you happier that each human needs to live life properly. These women need to be able to own who they are as women, because they have power just like men have power and to say that men are superior to women, they are actually equal, they both have things to offer to the table.